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Ornamental - It is used as ornamental plant.
East Europe, Middle-east, Central Asia
Sunny dry mountainous habitats.
Is mildly toxic to both humans and pets. Attracts butterflies and is a natural insecticide.
Perennial plant that can grow up to 60 cm tall.
Stem 25-50 cm tall, erect, solitary, unbranched or few branched from base, subglabrous.
Basal leaves: petiole 2-10 cm; leaf blade ovate or narrowly elliptic, 4-8 × 2.5-4 cm, 2-pinnatisect, both surfaces sparsely pubescent or glabrous; primary lateral segments 5-paired; ultimate segments triangular, elliptic, or narrowly elliptic. Stem leaves similar, sessile or shortly petiolate; leaves below capitula small, pinnatifid or entire.
Capitula solitary, terminal. Involucre cup-shaped, 1-1.5 cm in diam.; phyllaries in 4 rows, scarious margin brown, outer phyllaries lanceolate, ca. 3.5 mm, abaxially glabrous or sparsely pubescent, middle and inner ones narrowly elliptic or linear-oblanceolate, ca. 5 mm, abaxially glabrous. Ray florets red; lamina narrowly elliptic, ca. 1.6 cm, apex 2- or 3-denticulate.
Achenes ca. 2.5 mm. Corona 0.1-0.2 mm, margin shallowly obtusely lobed.
Flowering and Fruiting: May-Ocotber